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Ordinary Old Catholic Me
by djinnfromthebronx
There are lots of Catholic me's out there. We are lifelong practitioners of a certain age, folks who maybe remember Pre-Vatican Two and were thrown into the deep end of Post-Vatican Two where we still swim. We are maybe well read, but we are not theologians. We need to stick together so that we can navigate the tides of modern life which are probably just as choppy as they were 2000 years ago. Ordinary Old Catholic Me is Ordinary Old Catholic You. Let's walk together!
Episodes
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Still Beige and What Happened to Fraternal Correction?
I guess this is a kind of repeated lamentation. Not even small things are corrected in a Church, coming in late, leaving early, talking, chewing gum, drinking lattes, demanding no bells or smells (incense) because of personal taste and needs. How then can we deal with the big thing if we can't…
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Self Sufficient Elder Woman Meets Jesus (Right After the Rich Young Man)
As I have no doubt mentioned before, I have been working on the Ignatian Exercises on and off for a couple of years at least. Fr. Ed Broom, OMV (Oblates of the Virgin Mary) who does online and live retreats on the Exercises just recently released a book doing the exercises by yourself. I was on…
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Death Very Much on the (My) Mind
Not the first time I have considered the subject, but of late, the quick passage of time, and losses has brought me back to it. And probably again in the future!
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Would Rather Not Be Weeping, Would You?
This entry was orginally intended for Lent, but it applies always. We don't want to end up lamenting wrong choice and miss the point of the Act of Redemption, and Resurrection. God constantly offers wake up calls, and too many of us continue to snooze.
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Sin the Illogical
Why is it that some people want power even if it means destroying an entire civilization to get it? Over and over it has happened. It is positively bibilical. It is the illogic of sin overcome only by accepting and participating in the Cross. Not an easy task. But that is logic. And Salvation.
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Be A God Botherer
With the evil all around us, it is time for us happily to take on the label of what is usually an aspersion, God Botherers. The murders and all manner of vile behavior around us is not an act of God, but the act of us, sinners. We brought the chaos into the world at the beginning. We keep on...
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The Paradox of Suffering Even Catholics Don't Always Get
When Catholics lament about their sufferings (just like everyone else) they are kid of missing the point of the faith to which they purportedly adhere. We Christians were Baptized into the Suffering of Christ, and with that Baptism, we are supposed to see that Suffering is transformed. It's a big...
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The Bitter Burden of our (Seeming) Impermanence
You get older. There is no avoiding that there is more past than future for you. That's a struggle for the non-believer, and even the believer. The losses around you and the losses in your own life make it something that you can't just push aside. Some imperfect thoughts from one Catholic's...
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Remembering Una Devlin Lynch
There are just some people who are essential parts of your life. Una Devlin Lynch was one of them.
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Fire and Faith in Los Angeles
I have lived in Los Angeles over 40 years. I have seen all sorts of natural and man made disasters, most from afar. This one has been right up close and it has been a challenge both practically and spiritually. Some thoughts from this ever struggling Catholic.
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The Past Takes Sway
I guess it's just a reality of age, but yes, I have been thinking of the past, yet again. But I know that well, obviously the past is passing and what is eternal is what I must aim at.
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To Be Close to the Kingdom of God
The coincidence of the Gospel for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and a little scene in the pews and my reaction.
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Faith Must Precede Meditation
Alas, sometimes when I meditate I tie myself into knots. Some thoughts about that in this episode and how to get untied.
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More of This and That Again
It was, as I will report, a busy June and July and so a little of what's been going on in my spiritual life. . . .trying to become a woman of prayer.
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Today the Rabbit Hole
Thoughts about the things that jar me in the ordinary moments of being a Catholic, that might be or might not be connected. Is my real problem or yours a resistance to the demands of the love of God?
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Missed him--I Mean St. Jude--By THAT Much!
Today I had an adventure. I almost got to where I wanted to, to venerate the Relic of St. Jude. But there were obstacles. Still, there was spiritual success of a kind.
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To Be Steeped in History
Newman said "To be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant." That's another way of saying that to be steeped in history is to be Catholic. But maybe more than that to be steeped in history is to cease to be an unbeliever of any stripe. But to become steeped in history means diverging from...
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What Has Changed?
We just celebrated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Our Lord? What changed because of His action? Often does not seem like anything has. But look closer.
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God IS Guarding the Church
Things look so dark in the times in which we find ourselves. It has ever been thus, but God is there, the Word is there having been crucified and risen and ascended and will not leave us adrift---we are not forsaken, ever.
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She's Back
It's been about two months since the last new podcast episode. Today offering thoughts about pain, suffering and eternal life. The usual!
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Hiatus
Taking a hiatus. God bless. Maybe see you again in the Spring.
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Because the Church Said So
Does it make sense for Catholics to disregard the dogma and doctrine from the small to the great theological issues? Here is the small question that got me going on this subject today. A caller to a Catholic Radio show who felt that certain restrictions on music were unfair, and well, who voted…
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Rules that Can Help Our Spiritual Lives from Ignatius of Loyola
Last weekend I dove, as it were, into the Rules for Discernment of Spirits at a Seminar at St. Peter Chanel Church with the wonderful, brilliant and humble Fr. Tim Gallagher. What a blessing! I just want to share a little with you, and encourage you to explore! There is plenty of source material...
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The Master Artist Instructs Me
I've been in this four week parish study about the "Art of Dying". It has stirred thoughts which I offer for your consideration!
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The Earth is Filled with Violence
Struggle. Struggle. That's all sometimes I seem to do? How about you? The world around us is so profoundly difficult, in small and of course in the large things barrelling toward us. It gets to be overwhelming, and I lose the trail to God. It is critical to keep looking toward Him, no matter…
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Accepting Suffering
Another week, another obstacle. It's the same for all of us. As a Catholic, I know how I ought to respond. Alas, I fail utterly. Thus the importance of prayer, of the Sacraments, of learning to let God take the reins. It's a battle.
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Awake, and Prayerful
The events, the barbaric actions of other human beings, just can't get it out of my mind. Can you? Life can change, and end, often at the hands of our fellow men, in a moment. Be awake. Be prepared. It's God, or the Devil.
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Will You Not Watch One Hour With Me?
Gethsamane on my mind and the opportunity we have every time we are at Eucharistic Adoration. More than an opportunity. A necessity.
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Really Random Thoughts
A moment driving up on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles started my thinking about how difficult it is to stay on the narrow road and reminded me what I have to do to DO IT! Old news, usual difficulty in absorbing it.
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The Following Christ Thing
How often do I miss the reality of what it means to FOLLOW Christ. As soon as the slightest suffering comes my way, I am down for the count. How about you? But He offers us a solution in prayer, in letting Him hold us to Himself. It's simple. We complicate it. I complicate it.
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Random Thoughts of an Ordinary Sinner
Bad night last night spiritually speaking. Without Grace, I'd be doomed. Without Grace, accepted, responded to, we all would be doomed. Confession. Confession. That's the ticket!
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As Veronica Goes So Should We Aim
A close friend, and devoted Catholic died this last month. Some thoughts on her, her Catholicism and on her death.
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Drat, Failed Again
Instead of turning to God I complained, very loudly, with little restraint. Good thing for Confession.
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Miracle of Miracles 14:14
Today the exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles at my parish.
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Jerusalem Right At Our Doorstep--Carlo Acutus
As part of the Eucharistic Revival, parishes are hosting the Eucharistic Miracles Exhibit that was created by the late teenager, Carlo Acutis, Blessed Carlo Acutis. He saw what so many of us, Catholics even, do not, that the Eucharist is the "highway to heaven".
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Lord, Activate the Glow!
A personal experience this past week I hope generalizes to your life.
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The Responsibility to Follow Him
When Bishop Barron talked about Catholicism as the privileged way, he got a lot of heat. However, looking at it from another perspective, it makes a lot of sense. We have nothing to do with our becoming Catholic, as infants, should that be our Grace. But having that Grace we have been given an...
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The Gift of Bruno Lanteri
Always I am in search of a guide. Of course, there isn't just one. Fulton Sheen. Faustina. Teresas of Avila and the Little Flower. And now I add another model of faith, Bruno Lanteri. His way is, "doable" indeed.
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Contradictions
We all handle the reality of existence; we have no choice, except in how we interpret why things are the way they are. Some say there is no God and try to create a meaning. Others believe strongly in God and objective reality, though marred by sin and redeemed by the Act of Jesus on the Cross and...
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Wake Up Catholics!
Amid the dilution of the faith, it is of great solace to hear a priest from Nigeria remind us of the blessings we have and the struggles in his home country. His homily to raise funds to assist Nigerian Catholics was also a bit of a wake up call for us.
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Whither Goes the Synod: Will Somebody Help Me?
Last week, a working document was published apropos the Synod on Synodality. When asked about a section related to those who feel unwelcome, the divorced and civilly remarried, the polygamous and the gay community, someone asked Cardinal Hollerich about how these concerns played into the…
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This N That
Things come to mind during the week. Three of them this time. Thoughts about the Sacred Heart and how we receive the Eucharist. Thoughts about Hell. Thoughts about my lack of radical trust.
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Focus on Him: The Feast of Corpus Christi
We are living in deeply troubling times. While it might be no worse than say in the time of Pope Urban IV, where relativism reigned, there was moral corruption and a lack of faith, sometimes it feels so. Thank God we are reviving Eucharistic Adoration as part of the Eucharistic Revival. Oh, Lord,...
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What Will Open Our Catholic Hearts
How a bad mood got me thinking about what it will take to open our Catholic Hearts to a true recognition of the indispensability of the Sacraments, especially of the Eucharist.
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Thoughts On Just How Little I Know
I have begun to immerse myself in the riches of the Catholic Faith and her teachings. And the journey (the Journey of the Hero of a Thousand Faces) has revealed to me the dearth of knowledge I have had, despite calling myself a life long Catholic. Thoughts on that on Ordinary Old Catholic Me.
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We ARE Seeing the Chaos
So many of the episodes of this podcast are inspired by things that I observe and read in the course of my week. I find myself responding audibly without anyone else being present, and then I remember: I can talk about this on the podcast! And so here I am talking about a late diarist, Edward…
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When We Meet Again
A good friend is no longer with us and I just need to talk about it in Ordinary Old Catholic Me.
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Getting a Handle on Anger, I Pray
If I cannot maintain calm in simple challenges, without anger, the how will I be able to do so when the big challenges come? Reflecting on a week's worth of the small and considering where, to whom, I must go for help. Her initials are BVM.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
There are lots of Catholic me's out there. We are lifelong practitioners of a certain age, folks who maybe remember Pre-Vatican Two and were thrown into the deep end of Post-Vatican Two where we still swim. We are maybe well read, but we are not theologians. We need to stick together so that we can navigate the tides of modern life which are probably just as choppy as they were 2000 years ago. Ordinary Old Catholic Me is Ordinary Old Catholic You. Let's walk together!
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djinnfromthebronx
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